| Show I 1 NO MANS LAND the story of a man without a country told by henry bent to a reporter 0 I 1 t 0 san francisco examiner Is repeated aw follows although I 1 am a native of these good united states have never deserted ilia stars and stripes in any emergency have fought intro barsto uphold hor ensigns and have reared a half dozen patriotic sons I 1 am without a home and without a country remarked an elderly gentleman to an examiner live yesterday and this too while I 1 have never crossed tier borders and have always been credited with being a pretty fair sort of a citizen I 1 ball front no mant land 0 o land ti lien I 1 was a bay meant some place you been watching ilia doings of congress lately me ans A miles long and twenty four wide between colorado and texas and forming the tail end of the indian territory so called As a matter of fact it was never part of that territory nor any other and wo arc now asking congress to set us off as an independent territory so that we may govern ourselves As it is wo have no laws that is none that may be called such although we manage to do business and keep things 8 in an average way there are about of us in no land it is a country well watered by the north fork of the canadian river and its tributaries tributa ries A good many of the oklahoma boomers when they make things stick in okla homa cama over to our country we are it thriving lot and who knows but we will build up an empire our principal villages are camp nicholas and camp supply it is a level and very productive country mostly in round figures we about acres Quite enough it to make a little principality of itself it would mate a bigger state than connecticut we want it called cimarron and want to congress t hosa meas all ilia territories congress once bill allowing settlement tho of the disputed strip under ilia general land laws but president clove land has not yet signed it and we now have men in washington who are trying to get it put through A alme L pestered paper on ilia Coast says there are still some people who believe that theearta the earth is flat there are maily aho vho believe that a country can become rich by taxing itself and when these antique errors are held so long after their refutation it is not surprising that there should still be some who hold the faith that the royal road to wealth is by way of libel suits against newspapers courts and juries have worked nobly to convince the public that damage swill follow only a real grievance and that for amero mistake committed without malice a correction is sufficient atonement there nr estill some bemons however ho who will not give up the living on the spoils until they have served their terms in the school 0 f experience a wealthy in an ila die of recently and when ills will was opened the fol lowing tender words were read 1 I bequeath t 0 my dear children my un dying love which I 1 hope they will as lovingly accept and retain toward each other this precious gift will not perish with my body but will live for them throughout all the ages of eternity 1 ane donld does move I 1 n a vir ginia paper of thirty years go is a I 1 ong account of the sentence of a woman to two years imprisonment for deac 11 in S slave 1 I to ron d THE fact that mercury was once a god is now fallen so low that none will stoop to do III in revere nce fifteen degrees below berd inthia hade 3 11 I 1 i A I 1 A |
